I’d have thought, but the Nuclear Fusion breakthrough actually caught me by surprise! That research had been making steady progress, but I didn’t really see much about it (outside of personal research) until the breakthrough actually occurred. I was primarily curious to see if anyone here was up to date on the topic whether though personal interest or being actively involved in the research.

From my understanding mass and energy both have an impact on AG potential, and the lack of sufficient energy (along with the superheavy elements) was a big barrier to further research. Another comment pointed out we’ve made it to 118 so far; if we can get Tokamaks to pump out significantly more than 6 water kettles worth of energy through NF, and solve the problem of the ridiculously short half-lives, I wonder what we’d manage to discover (related to AG or otherwise).

Absolutely a good point though, I guess we’ll just have to wait until the wave of clickbait hits before getting excited. No complaints here, we’ve had plenty of exciting breakthroughs this year as-is!

I’d also add here that the 115-118 we’ve been able to make this far is in very limited quantities due to the expensive nature of creating super heavy elements. I believe these elements also decay rather quickly so testing their full range of properties is also limited.

My own speculation is that we likely won’t see more research into gravitic properties of superheavies until it’s easier to manufacture them either from cost or novel methods

I think it’s crazy conspiracy stuff related to Bob Lazar’s famous (and famously crazy) statements regarding the supposed use of element 115 to power antigravity drives in flying saucers which he claims to have reverse-engineered at Area 51.

No further comment seems necessary.